A group of Good Samaritans pulled a person from a truck that crashed near a store in Worcester on Thursday

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Updated: 9:29 AM EDT Mar 24, 2017

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WEBVTT THEY USED WHAT THEY HAD TO SAVEHIM.>> YA, MY HEART WAS POUNDING.JULIE: IN TRUTH, IT STILL WASWHEN WE TALKED TO SHAWNHIBBARD.>> IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OUR OURFACES SO WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING.JULIE: ABOUT WHAT SHOULD HAVEBEEN ANOTHER NORMAL DAY ON THEJOB, REMOVING SHOW AT THELINCOLN PLAZA IN WORCESTER.>> I HEARD A BANG, OR WHATEVER,BUT I DIDN'T REALLY THINK MUCHOF IT BECAUSE OF ALL THE OTHERNOISES GOING ON.I SAW SOME CRAZY, BILLOWINGSMOKE FROM PROBABLY 80 FEET AWAYAS I WALKED AROUND THERE WASANOTHER GUY THAT CAME OUT OF APICKUP TRUCK AND HE ASKED ME IFI COULD HELP HIM.SCARY, VERY SCARY.WHEN I SAW THE FLAMES GOING UPAND THE MAN IN THE VEHICLE WASINCOHERENT, WITHIN SECONDS IKNEW THAT TRUCK WAS GOING RIGHTUP IN FLAMES AND THE FIREDEPARTMENT WAS NOT THERE YETPOLICE SAY THE DRIVER OF THEPICKUP HAD A MEDICAL EMERGENCY,WHICH CAUSED HIM TO LOSECONTROL, AND PLOW INTO FENCINGMATERIAL, A FIRE HYDRANT ANDGUARDRAIL BEHIND THE LOWE'S.AT FIRST, HIBBARD TRIED TO MOVETHE DEBRIS.>> I HAD A CHAIN IN THE TRUCKAND I WAS TRYING TO WRAP IT.>> BUT THEN REMEMBERED HE HAD AFIRE EXTINGUISHER.>> HE DID A COUPLE OF ARMSWEEPS AND PUT IT OUT.JULIE: BY THEN, FIREFIGHTERS ANDPOLICE HAD ARRIVED, AND ALONGWITH A GOOD SAMARITAN GOT THEVICTIM OUT.>> RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME FORTHAT GENTLEMAN BECAUSE THE FIREEXTINGUISHER WAS A SAVIOR FORHIJULIE.

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A group of Good Samaritans pulled a person from a truck that crashed near a store in Worcester on Thursday